I've seen a lot of great tips threads since I started lurking here and it seems we dont have anything on the sidebar yet for new players so I thought I'd create a little directory of handy tips threads for someone looking for survival pointers.

I'm trying to be good and wait to see if ArmA 2 shows up in the Summer sale. In the meantime I'm trying to learn the ropes in the Boot Camp of ArmA 2 free. I never expected the the controls to feel so "different".

So my buddy and I just started playing yesterday. His name is Comrade Verner and I'm Comrade Weinerstein. I'm an addicted redditor. Are there any sort of reddit groups that get together to pull shennanigans?

I personally use the in game communication with it set to "Direct Communication" (This can be set using the , and . keys) and then use cap lock or whichever you bound it to. Most of the time people will shoot you dead before you can get a peep out though.

The SixLauncher however always went for reinstalling DayZ+Beta Patch even though Dayz already has been installed.

On my third run after 1) dying from an Zed-encounter which broke my legs and left me unconcious and 2)broke my legs while killing a zombie and being stuck in a doorway with 6k blood left ,i got the like super cool stuff on the 3rd run (including a hatchet) .But then Battleye kicked me for clicking on the Server control button.

Ah, I can't believe I never saw that! I apologize, I'm an infrequent redditor, so I'm ashamed to say that I'm still not completely familiar with the inner-workings of Reddit. I feel like an idiot right now, but I'm grateful to you for not treating me as such. Thank you very much!

I've been hesitant to list this map due the the nearly random nature of the the mechanics behind these spawns. Just when somebody things they found them all another person comes along with a similar map but with more crash sites no where close to these ones.

Well..I was actually wrong. This map is outdated.. BUT past two days ive found crash sites on exactly locations that it shows. Found one yesterday, 150-200m north of Polana on a hill and on NWE, the sourthern barracks - 50m east out on the airfield.